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Wenchen Fan commented on SPARK-26215:
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> Is "In Spark SQL, we are too tolerant about non-reserved keywords" meaning 
> that we have too many non-reserved keywords which should be defined as 
> reserved keywords?

Yes

> I am wondering if we should create an umbrella JIRA for SQL standard 
> compliance in 3.0

sure, feel free to create one. BTW maybe SQL2003 is good enough, but we should 
follow the latest standard if there is a conflict: e.g. 2003 says a keyword is 
non-reserved, but 2011 says it's not, we should follow 2011.

> define reserved keywords after SQL standard
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>                 Key: SPARK-26215
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-26215
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
>            Reporter: Wenchen Fan
>            Priority: Major
>
> There are 2 kinds of SQL keywords: reserved and non-reserved. Reserved 
> keywords can't be used as identifiers.
> In Spark SQL, we are too tolerant about non-reserved keywors. A lot of 
> keywords are non-reserved and sometimes it cause ambiguity (IIRC we hit a 
> problem when improving the INTERVAL syntax).
> I think it will be better to just follow other databases or SQL standard to 
> define reserved keywords, so that we don't need to think very hard about how 
> to avoid ambiguity.
> For reference: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/sql-keywords-appendix.html



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